The trial began with the filing of new documents by the Prosecutor of Marsala, celebrated before the single judge Giusi Montericcio, which sees the former Sassari prosecutor Maria Angioni accused of false information to the public prosecutor in the case of little Denise Pipitone, disappeared from Mazara del Vallo on 1 September 2004.
Angioni, who investigated the disappearance of the child, allegedly lied to the Prosecutor of Marsala who, right after the statements she made to the media, reopened the investigation into Denise's disappearance . In several TV appearances she had denounced alleged misdirections of the original investigation, which is why she was heard by her Sicilian colleagues . But the revelations were soon denied by the investigations made . Hence the accusation of false information.
According to the prosecutor Roberto Piscitello, at least four statements made by Angioni were false: the alleged deactivation of a video camera which, according to the defendant, could have brought useful elements to the investigation and which would have been decided by the police without the knowledge of the then prosecutor. The investigators discovered that in reality the camera had been activated, for the first time, at the express request of the police and that it would have been deactivated following Angioni's decision in 2005.
The former prosecutor then said that the judicial police investigating Denise "had been the subject of investigations by the Prosecutor of Marsala for a whole series of events which - objectively - made her the least appropriate to conduct those delicate investigations", and that therefore he would have decided to remove the listening of the wiretaps to that office.
The defendant, heard by colleagues, insinuated that there would have been leaks from investigators who would have warned those intercepted of the presence of bugs . Instead, the investigations revealed that Angioni himself returned to the police the task of listening to the wiretaps, a conduct that was inconsistent with the discovery of news leaks. Finally, Angioni declared that the former manager of the Marsala police station would have been investigated for "anomalies" in the investigation into Denise : this circumstance was also denied by the investigations.
According to Piscitello, Angioni never removed the investigations from the Mazara del Vallo police station (later accused of having polluted the investigation), on the contrary, as owner of the case he involved the policemen more.
"In fact, immediately after an initial interruption of the interceptions in progress, Angioni immediately signed several decrees delegating all the operations to the same police station of Mazara del Vallo", noted Piscitello who underlined that "at another time, making fun of even of Justice, Angioni awkwardly tried to move forward the moment in which he stubbornly (and falsely) reiterated that he had made the decision to withdraw the investigation from the Mazara police station ».
The prosecutor spoke of the defendant's "bad faith" . "It would take a psychologist or a psychiatrist ... and this was the magistrate," he added.
«In the fluvial declarations that he very generously released in his multiple television appearances, in his internet accounts, in the social networks in which his presence was never lacking - he underlined - Angioni cast more than a shadow on the ways in which the police station of Mazara del Vallo would lead the investigation. In no uncertain terms he hinted that those investigations were marked by the absolute infidelity of the judicial police which in some cases would have made serious omissions, favoritism all aimed at guaranteeing impunity to those guilty of the kidnapping of Denise Pipitone ».
From the investigations - recalls the prosecutor - "it emerged, however, that his statements were completely groundless, all referring to facts that never occurred in the peremptory terms in which he had reported them as a witness". during the interrogation, "the defendant from whom one would then reasonably have expected a simple acknowledgment of what the prosecution had ascertained, with the consequent painless correction of the statements previously made during the interrogation, instead essentially confirmed the lies told in the context of information, engaging in an exhausting rigmarole of admissions and denials not followed by a clear and unequivocal acknowledgment that what he had reported did not correspond to the truth".
«With the media highlighting the functions performed at the time of the kidnapping of Denise Pipitone - he concluded -, Maria Angioni has found a way to be an increasingly important part of the new interest in the case , appearing - in an exponential crescendo - in many television broadcasts as on different online platforms . The former prosecutor soon assumed the role of a real television star , whose presence, live in the studios or remotely, was disputed by the dozens of broadcasts that on public or private networks calibrated their schedules precisely on the kidnapping of the child mazarese. In each of the innumerable guests it was the magistrate himself who made the affair take on the connotations of a detective story, the failure of which he reported to have depended on errors, misdirections, particular interests of this or that criminal consortium and above all on the infidelity of the organ of Police who had conducted those investigations (without saying under his direction): the police station of Mazara del Vallo».
(Unioneonline/D)
